Have you HEARD the post Christmas story?

I'm in church this morning sitting with the congregation instead of in the choir loft. The little children go forward for their story and the minister tells them, I mean really tells them, the story of Herod killing all the babies under two years of age. Now why would you tell little children this story?
I guess it was my shock that made me really hear the story for the first time.
The Wise Men go to Herod to ask the whereabouts of the child they are looking for. When they tell Herod this child will become a king he asks them to return after they have found him and let Herod know, so he can go worship him. Of course God intercedes and tells the Wise Men to go home a different way. When Herod realizes he has been duped he commands that all babies under the age of 2 be murdered. Jesus is saved because God sends an angel to warn Joseph in a dream and they escape to Egypt (the other place God let babies be killed).

So today I hear that God saved his son, and lets the other children die.

I also started to think about the likelihood that Herod couldn't find the child without the help of the Wise Men. (and why didn't he just have them followed?) So in this small country, in a little town, in a stable, a baby is born, under the light of a star so bright that Kings are following it from far lands. Subsequently the sky is filled with a crowd of angels singing praises and shepherds come down from the hillside to see what's going on. All of this in a town filled to overflowing with people from all over.

Don't you think even using word of mouth the news of what was going on would have reached Herod? Or did he just ignore the intelligence reports?